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These people deserve their own thread separate from a thread about the clowns in the legislature. People like Rosanell Eaton are what makes America great.

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2013/06/28/2207851/moral-monday-protest/

June 24 protestors were led by 92-year-old Rosanell Eaton, who had already suffered under Jim Crow discrimination growing up. When she tried to vote at age 21, she was required (without forewarning) to repeat the preamble to the Constitution in order to register, a feat she accomplished on the spot. As her daughter Armenta explained, “She’s seen the good, bad, and the ugly. Now she’s seeing the ugly again.”
 
Yes, we're aware that the current GOP is just like the people who defended slavery. I'm thinking of the SC senator from Fort Mill.
 
"One unemployed man named Lee Creighton took the mic and explained the plight of the unemployed in North Carolina. Next week, 70,000 North Carolinians will lose federal extended unemployment benefits because of a new state law that reduces the maximum benefit an individual can receive. North Carolina is the only state to reject these federal benefits, which come at no cost to the state."

EXTENDED benefits. unemployment/welfare is supposed to be a way to bridge the gap, not a way of life.

these protestors have every right to express their free speech, but they also must remember that these elected officials are voted in. if we continue to extend these unemployment benefits, what is pushing people to get jobs?
 
You're kidding aren't you? In most states, you get a max of $350-450/week. Low earners make far less than that.

It's another RW myth that thousands of people would rather get unemployment than work.
 
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NC average is just over $500/week, top 8 or 10 in the country.

so RJ what is your plan, just keep paying people that are out of work? when is a good place to stop? where does the money come from?
 
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Job creation seems to be the problem. What's happening there?
 
Blame the poor!

If you can't afford to start a business, just ask your parents for some money. Geez.
 
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towelie99 said:
"One unemployed man named Lee Creighton took the mic and explained the plight of the unemployed in North Carolina. Next week, 70,000 North Carolinians will lose federal extended unemployment benefits because of a new state law that reduces the maximum benefit an individual can receive. North Carolina is the only state to reject these federal benefits, which come at no cost to the state."

EXTENDED benefits. unemployment/welfare is supposed to be a way to bridge the gap, not a way of life.

these protestors have every right to express their free speech, but they also must remember that these elected officials are voted in. if we continue to extend these unemployment benefits, what is pushing people to get jobs?
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lol

Why ever give anyone some help? They'll just immediately become helpless lifelong dependent blobs!
 
towelie99 said:
NC average is just over $500/week, top 8 or 10 in the country.

so RJ what is your plan, just keep paying people that are out of work? when is a good place to stop? where does the money come from?
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NC does NOT "average over $500/week". It doesn't. the MAX is $522 http://fileunemployment.org/unemployment-benefits-comparison-by-state.

Most states have a max of 50% of what you had earned. Few people can afford that.


Unemployment is an insurance policy that you paid into. There will be times there are huge surpluses in the communal accounts (like in the 90s). That money should be saved for times like these.

In bad times we may run a deficit on unemployment, this happens from time to time in many insurance products.

to get more than 99 weeks, you would have to to work more that many weeks uninterrupted.
 
WFFaithful said:
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Why ever give anyone some help? They'll just immediately become helpless lifelong dependent blobs!
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Like businesses in NC dependent on tax breaks.
 
How many people are they hiring?
 
what im hearing a LOT of on this thread is government support. haevnt we all read enough history to know what happens when society become too dependent on gov't help?
 
Well this thread took a nice trajectory from the OP.
 
towelie99 said:
what im hearing a LOT of on this thread is government support. haevnt we all read enough history to know what happens when society become too dependent on gov't help?
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You are suggesting people work at Wal-Mart (whose employees pretty much HAVE to go on government assistance) rather than looking for a better paying job that will allow them to support themselves without government assistance.

So it sounds like you are the one advocating more government help.
 
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